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‘Staff/student ratios in British universities are high and formal obligations light. There is freedom in the sense of personal autonomy of an order to be found rarely, if at all, in other occupational groups. These conditions permit the essential elements of what is considered a ‘gentlemanly’ way of life … Reputation largely, though not wholly, depends on professional standards.’

academic work defined as a problem which needs managing to increase efficiency ; actors transformed into manageable entities that can be transported through space-time (Malcolm and Zukas 2009)

The paradox of ‘collegiality’: academic resistance to greater central regulation devolves power and discretion to senior individuals in departments, reinforcing unequal power relations (Hull, 2006)

‘With apparently unconscious irony, many academics reported that they particularly valued the flexibility of their working week, in terms of both time and space … in the same breath as reporting working weeks in the order of 60 hours’ (Anderson, 2006)

Oxford: ‘to engage in advanced study or research; to give …not less than 16 lectures or classes a year; and to take part in university examining and graduate supervision as and when requested … it is expected that CUF lecturers will limit their total commitments, and colleges their demands on them, so that time will be available for advanced study or research.’

DIT: ‘Teaching up to 560 hours p.a. including supervision … a norm of 16 class contact hours per week’